High Heels and Holes

updates on special post: the first draft is yet to complete. Maybe over the long weekend.

Some times back, I was in a lift with a girl whose heels got stuck at the floor of the lift while she was getting in. It took some time for her to pull it out and everybody in the lift was watching her. If you ask me, that was a humiliating moment and in my head, I was like "You should've watched where you were going. With heels like that, you should know that, the lift is one of the places where it will get stuck"

Little did I know that today I'll be that girl.

My situation was a little bit better than hers though. It happened outside the doors of Tower 1 at 7.50 am where people are either walking quickly into the building to make it into office before 8.00 am or getting out of the office to get breakfast rather than at the door of the lift where all the people in the lift got nothing better to do than watch you.

Point is, when you are wearing high heels, walking like you are working it on a catwalk, my advice is just watch where you are going. You don't want your heels to get stuck anywhere while you are looking all glamorous. Me, I don't really mind it because I am a walking klutz. I pretty much tripped, hit things, walk into puddles and the likes just because I'm walking.

The shoes I wore on my solemnization and reception. Very glamorous (right?), very comfortable (thus practical) and not so high heels (high enough for me to have a nice walk but not too high). Although I'm not a graceful person, I don't want my heels to get stuck on my wedding day.

Busy Bee

Hari nie entry ialah dalam bahasa ibunda (maybe campur aduk buat cam rojak mee sket, sbb that is naturally me).

Minggu ini ialah sangat busy for me and husband. Walaupon nie baru hari isnin, dah bley anticipate kesibukkannye especially biler memandangkan yg jumaat nie and jumaat depan adalah public holiday. Meaning, for this week and next week, which jumlah harinye ialah 14 hari, hari bekerja hanyalah 8 hari sahaja.

Dan aku ialah tidak sabar utk mengpublishkan entry yg telah dibulatkan in red dibawah, tetapi that specific entry masih dlm draft lagi kerana sgt byk yg ingin diperkatakan dalam entry tersebut dan aku sedang mencuba utk meet husband nye writing standard. Sbb tak sabar and excited sgt itulah, kna promote dulu entry nie to make sure that aku siapkan entry nie.

Berbalik kepada kesibukan minggu neh, setiap kali biler keje agak tough and demanding sket aku slalu ingat kat movie "The devil wears Prada" biler 1st assistant devil tu cakap "I love my job, I love my job". Tp masalahnye aku mmg love my job. So biler the going gets tough, aku ialah mmg nak the going gets tough. Kalau tak apeka keje aku bosan.

Kesimpulannye, kalau buat keje yang kite ske, datanglah segala badai ribut taufan hujan petir, still keje kite lah paling bess dan kite still akan do our best to see it completes. Kalau keje kite adalah something yg kite benci, bg lah RM sejuta pon, sampai bebiler aku tannak buat (aku ialah tidak berapa money driven).

p/s: Walaupon bz, tag sempat buat kot. So kazen mazen ku ina (aku x de nickname baru utk kau lg), nnti aku buat tag ko. To kazen mazen nuha, jikalau click gambar diatas, internet explorer yg paling kanan itu ialah your blog. Haha~ baca kat ofis sbg selingan kerja tau!! Kepada colleague2 ku, i hope you love your job and love working with the company. Kepada colleague2 yg sama SKG ngn aku, i hope you love your job and love working with the company walaupon x dapat allowance sebanyak yg diinginkan. :)

Love Actually

Mari kite buat tag!! (Sorry, the title is a little bit misleading)

[01] Are you currently in a relationship?
Yup :)

[02] Have you ever been given a rose?
A rose and many roses. From my love and from many people. :)

[03] What is your all-time favorite love story movie?
I like movies, so I'm not sure if this is my all-time fave love stroy movie but at I really, really love the movie "Love Actually" because love actually is all around. Between son and dad, between strangers and even between a loyal wife and his cheating husband. Tak caye, tgk la citer nie.

[04] Are you in love ryte now?
Yup

[05] Do you believe that everyone has a soulmate?
If you look you'll find, if you don't look you'll find, things happen and things dont happen. :)

[06] What's your current problem?
I'm a person who doesn't like problems. So even if i do have a problem, most of the time i'll forget it by tomorrow and the problem turn into just another highlight of my day.

[07] Have you ever had your heart broken?
If broken means rejected by someone you like or love in a relationship that is meant to be intimate, then no. If broken means someone being very angry, raise their voice or being very rude to you without good reasons, then yes. Yeah, I really don't like angry people.

[08] Your thoughts on online or long distance relationships?
Online, long distance, short distance, no distance. To me they are all the same. That relationship is still between two persons who choose to be in a relationship and thus choose to survive or not to.

I bet people will say, easy for you to say you get to see your husband everyday. I bet there are people who is like, I cant survive seeing my husband everyday. Distance make the heart grow fonder sometimes.

[09] Have you ever seen a friend as more than a friend?
More than a friend as in best friend? Haha~ of course.
More than a friend as in special someone? Haha~

[10] The person you're with right now?
I'm with as in, in an intimate relationship is my husband (who like to buli me, ignore me, be with me, and lotsa other things that's both crazy and loving without reasons)
I'm with as in who's next to me, nobody cause it's lunch hour (I like to stay in the office during friday lunch hour coz it's long and quiet)

[11] I tag:
As usual, nobodies :)

Apple Crumble

I seriously don't like to cook because cooking to me is messy, sweaty and complicated. And i dont even eat that much anyway. These days, the main reason I do cook is because I can experiment with my food (macam main masak2 la kan, masa kecik2 kan ske main masak2 sbb main itu bess and the real thing is not so). I like baking though (note that i like baking, not love baking or passionate or mad about baking) as most of the time I can get it right just by following the recipe. So after work on Monday, I made apple crumble!!

As it is with me and cooking, I've combined three different recipes for this apple crumble experiment. Two recipes are from the same cooking book and one is from the net. The note in orange is the pointers I've got from my first time baking apple crumble and if you want to try this, I would suggest for you to follow the note. Keep in mind that these notes are my preference, so if you are a good cook, you can pretty much estimate for yourself. If you dont mind, then my preference can be your preference too!!

Ohh, and i like cinnamon!!!

The recipe;

For the filling

• 6 cooking apples *note: Ibu said that this is too much apple, so next time use 5. There are varieties of cooking apples, but I used granny smith
• 187.5 g soft light brown sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon *note: This is not enough for me. I call for more cinnamon!!

For the crumble topping

• 62.5 g soft light brown sugar
• 100 g self raising flour
• 100 g plain wholemeal flour *note: Cant find this so i used plain flour instead. I read somewhere that the difference between these two is that the wholemeal version is more nutrious while the plain white has been ripped of any nutritional value
• 150 g unsalted butter *note: Can be reduced and switched to margerine instead so x rase lemak sangat

Methodology (macam chem lab la plak)

• Pre-heat oven to 190 degrees celcius
• Peel, core and cut the apples into chunks (i cut the apple into 6 and then cut each 1/6 section of the apple into 3. The apples turned out perfect this way.)
• Put the apple chunks into a baking dish and add sugar and cinnamon. Mix them up!! *note: if you use a big baking dish, then your crumble layer will be thinner (like mine) so use a good size baking dish. agak2 la, as long as the apple mixture is not so thick.
• Sift self raising flour into a big bowl and add in the plain flour.
• Add butter and then rub in with fingers until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. (rub in is a technique where you take the mixture using your fingers and rub in your thumb over them. Jangan uli plak)
• Add sugar add rub in some more.
• Spread the crumble over the apple mixture.
• Bake for about 40-45 mins or until crumble is golden brown.
• Eat while it's hot with vanilla ice cream

Next time, I'll bake this in a small cup / very small baking dish for ease of eating. The pictures are in husband's hp so I'll post 'em later.

p/s: Husband and I went jogging at the KLCC park yesterday. Husband, out of his health consciousness and me, out of fear of fatness. This reminds me that I need a new pair of running shoes.

Of A Tree

I like to doodle, especially in long boring meeting (or during my days as a student, during boring classes). This little masterpiece was created in a meeting sometimes end of 2008. That page is still in my organizer, that's why i can still remember. There's a date at the top right hand side of the page, but I dont think that's the date I created this. This is 'Of A Tree'.

Ohhh...I'm waiting for husband to be done with work already!!! Not that I mind him working late, anyway. I dont mind waiting for him either because while waiting for him I can work, shop and today I work a little and then I blog!!

It's 6 p.m. I love the office at times like this (other times like this include lunch hour on friday). A proof that an office can actually be a peaceful place to be (erk...because everybody else went home already!!)

Husband told me he'll call when he's done. I'm done with this entry so I think I'll continue with my work. But, I've met my KPI for today so I think I'll start with the stuff I planned to do tomorrow. Let us all be one hell of a fab employee :)

p/s: more doodles on the way. I've scanned three today~

d.o.u.g.h.n.u.t

There’s no need to promote Dunkin Donuts just because I crave doughnuts. And I don’t have to be growing a mini me / mini husband inside my tummy just because I crave for something. I crave for food all the time and there are times when I don’t even feel like eating anything. All in balance :)

I'm craving for doughnut. I just want one sugar raised doughnut. Nothing glamorous like strawberry-filled-sugar-coated or chocolate-coated-with-some-more-chocolate-thingy-sprinkled-on-top doughnut. I just want a simple sugar raised!!! I wanted this yesterday morning!!

Yesterday morning, all the bakeries on the way from KLCC LRT Station to Rohas Perkasa building (3 bakeries in KLCC + 1 kedai runcit selling pastries at Rohas) either didn’t make / sell them or yet to bake them or yet to open for the day. RotiBoy = didn’t have; Cold Storage = still closed; Dunkin Donuts = yet to display, kedai runcit@Rohas = didn’t have. Is it so hard to get the most simplest form of doughnut there is? Dunkin Donuts were already selling other type of doughnuts but not the one I want.

However, today, after lunch, I walked past Dunkin Donuts and saw the sugar raised ones sitting there golden and sparkling, seeming to be waiting especially for me to buy ‘em. Tp aku kalau dah kenyang mmg xde perasaan kat food sangat. So, I promise myself that I will buy one after work today. Hopefully, my tummy has done processing my lunch so that I’m a little bit hungry and in the mood for food again.

I like it when I crave for something so badly and I can’t have it at that time, pronto because when I do get to eat it, waaahhhh~ heavenly :)

p/s: teringin gak nak makan waffles kt Haagen Dazs depan Toys’R’Us kat Suria KLCC. I think it’s waffles anyway. Actually, I don’t really know what it is because what I really want at Haagen Dazs is the aroma of something that I always smell when I walked by the stall. I want that aroma. Bley tak pegi situ cakap, “Saya nak order bau tu. Tak tau la ape, but I want that cause it smells so good!!” All I hope is for the taste of that something will match its scent :)

Alkisah Tangisan Diri Sendiri

Adakah anda seorang yang emo?

Yup. Aku adalah seorang yang emo and I have no problem showing my emotional side off to people.

Selalu menangis?

Bese2 aje. But as I'm contstantly on emotional roller coaster, I dont need reason to cry. Biler aku nak nangis, nangis je la.

Adakah anda menangis apabila menonton/baca cerita sedih?

Yup. All the time :)

Kali terakhir anda menangis sekuat hati?
Tak ingat la biler. Ohh...masa kat miri kot, mase tu baru balik offshore and esoknye nak naik flight balik KL. Mase tu cuti CNY. Walaupon aku x dpt cuti CNY yg panjang, kalau pg offshore dpt unrecorded leave. hehe~

Kenapa anda menangis waktu itu?
Hahaha...

Apa yg anda lakukan sewaktu itu?
Pas nangis, makan nasi goreng kampung ngn telur goreng (room service tau, makan pkol 10pm, abess diet), sambil tgk transformer.

Adakah anda rasa anda patut menangis ketika itu?
Crying is a good way to make you feel better. So go ahead and cry, baby!

Pernah ke menenangkan kawan yg sedang menangis?
Ntah...

Kalau anda menangis, adakah di depan seseorang or sorangsorang?
Seperti biasa, ikut ske mood masa tu la. Ehe~

Adakah anda menelefon seseorang ketika menangis untuk meluahkan masalah?
If I remember correctly, I called my bf (skrang dah jadi husband) lepas langgar satu motor dekat simpang empat. Keta waja mmg remuk kt belah passenger kt depan. Padahal mase tu dah settle sme. Penunggang motor tu x mintak ganti rugi pon, just die soh anta n bayar die nye treatment kat klinik. Tu pon duit aku tak cukup, last2 penunggang motor tu byr sendiri. hahaha~ Biler dah abess sme tuh, baru lah plak rase nak nangis dasat2...

Pernahkah anda menangis ketika sedang sms dengan seseorang?
Ohhh...I must be one emotional wreck if this happens to me.

Kenapa?
X nangis la mase sms

Adakah dia tahu anda menangis ketika itu?
X nangis la mase sms

Anda rasa bilakah anda akan menangis lagi?
Ohhh...kalau aku tau biler aku akan menangis lagi, maka aku ader bakat utk jadi fortune teller.

I tag:
Nobodies~

I got this from the cap of an orange juice bottle

Enough said :)

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

This is the third Dan Brown book that I've read, after Da Vinci's Code and Digital Fortress. I have to say that I like the first two books that I've read better. My husband loves this book tho, he's already started reading this book for the second time.

The main character of Angels and Demon, Robert Langdon (yeah, the same Robert Langdon as in Da Vinci's Code) and his female counterpart in this novel, Vittoria Vetra, has to go through a kind of like a riddle to find old churches, in order to save four cardinals. The rest of the novel evolves around them sorting out the riddles.

The novel was nearly 600 pages, and almost all describe the happenings of one night! Imagine that. The novel started when Langdon was awakened by a phone call very early in the morning and end at the same night except for the last few pages.

The movie is coming out in May, and i doubt that the movie will be able to outdo the book, but i'm looking forward to it anyway! I finished the book especially for the movie, so that I can compare :)

Nobody tagged me but i want to do this anyway!!

These are from Nuha's blog. She did'nt tag anyone and i feel like doing it! Yeay~

5 things in my bag:

• Purse
• Handphone
• Office ID (ada 3 tau, one is for the Twin Towers; one for lift at Rohas; one for Bokor Project Office Access)
• Compact Powder with mirror
• Touch & Go and ERL Card

5 things in my wallet

• Dokumen pengenalan diri (IC & Driving License)
• Cards (credit card - sgt penting, atm card, I-Setan member card - hoho, my blood type card)
• Gambar husband
• Miscellaneous receipt (especially credit card nye)
• And obviously money!

5 favourite things in my bedroom

• Mirror, not full length but if I stand back it becomes one :)
• Comforter (hadiah kawen dr d_r)
• My make-up
• My wardrobe that needs updating
• Husband (bley kire as things ke?)

5 things I wish to do

• Paid vacation (but i really loves my work)
• Ease to go to work and to go back home. No traffic and no delay in train.
• Can work out more (hoho~ teringin sgt nak swimming)
• Watch movies at the cinema and eat popcorn!!
• This one is surprisingly difficult, am i content with my life?? wahh~

5 things I’m doing now

• Chatting with next cubicle neighbour
• Doing a presentation
• Doing this tag
• Try to access my friend's e-mail
• Supposed to listen to mp3s, but i've put my headphone down ;)

5 people I would like to tag

• Five nobodies. Do this at your will :) (or will not)

Naddie = Moody

I can be very moody sometimes, especially when it's the time of the month. Some people like my mom can hide their moodiness well. But i choose not to bother. That or when i'm too moody i can't think straight. And these past two days have been too moody-ful for me. It started yesterday...

when i get my back pain while sitting at my workstation. I immediately blame my PC positioning. I move the monitor and CPU here and there and back here again. In short, i moved my CPU and monitor THREE times just because i was uncomfortable sitting in my chair. My neighbour from the next workstation asked "Ko nak pindah ke Nad?"

And continued today...

when the LRT is a little bit delayed. It gets worst when I get sweaty. And I was hungry. So when we get to KLCC station I asked my husband to walk me to my office, out of spite because of my moodiness. He's got patience alright, so he did walk with me, even tho only halfway and that lifted my mood a lil bit. I felt completely healed when I took my breakfast of sandwich and hot tea. Ahh~ my cup of tea always make my day (and night).

My husband once told me that, I am moody mostly because I lack patience. I have to admit that plus I dont like to think before I do things. Instead of attending to my moods, I should have stop! and take a deep breath instead. I would have felt better and not waste time moving my PC around only to put it back at its original place and not waste my husband time walking me to my office just because I feel like blaming someone for the LRT delay.

If anyone think being moody can be used to my advantage, think again. It only makes you feel helpless and out of control.